Book details

  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Creativity
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Digital Master
  • Series Number:12
  • Pages:200
  • eBook ISBN:9781483590745

100 Creativity Ingredients

Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity

By Pearl Zhu

Overview

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight.


Creativity is the ability to create novel value and make a difference; the creative mind is defined as originator mastering “out-of-the-box” thinking to break through conventional wisdom.


Creativity needs a problem to switch on the “light bulb power,” and the creative person needs a purpose to fuel positive energy.


Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.


Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination; creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

Creativity adds a signature or aesthetic sense that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

Creativity is wings of our mind and tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon.           

Creativity habit needs to be cultivated via practices, creativity muscle needs to be strengthened via daily grinding, and creativity excellence can be achieved.

Creativity formula has many unique ingredients, read this book “100 Creativity Ingredients” to figure out.
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Description

In recent years, creativity has become a very highly valued skill, and many think it is the #1 most wanted professional capability in the digital era. We all have unlimited creativity potential and intrinsic ability to think outside of the box, but we need to learn how to unlock it. Creativity is a function of imagination, multidimensional thinking, knowledge, psychology, activities, and motivation. The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity ingredients, to paint the picture with them, to add colors on them, to embed the music into them, and to make the story via them, in order to unleash our collective creativity potential.

Chapter 1 Intellectual Ingredients: Creativity is the high level of thinking. Thinking is probably one of the most difficult things for human beings, the thinking capability well defines the difference between human and other creatures, and the level of thinking may also well reflect who we are.

Chapter 2 Psychological Ingredients: If you consider being creative as a way of thinking, of imagining, of expression, of perceiving things, of inventing, of inspiring, etc, then it happens every day, multiple times a day. To gifted creatives, being creative is something that they are, whether they're consciously being creative or not. It is the psychological state of the mind depending on what you consider creativity and being creative.

Chapter 3 Knowledge and Capability Ingredients: There is a philosophical connection between knowledge and creativity. Knowledge is path-dependent. This means that to discover an opportunity, you should have previous knowledge in the field to be able to get recognized. Imagination is also needed to be able to apply this previous knowledge to the different context. Nowadays creativity is an important professional capability, and the multitude of professional capabilities can enforce creativity as well.


Chapter 4 Activity Ingredients: While we each have the enormous creative capacity, our willingness to exercise and express it becomes more complicated. Creative people are inspired to think and work nearly every day on creating, not reactively waiting for the “Aha” moment, but proactively stimulating the new energy with the fountain of creativity.


Chapter 5 Motivational Ingredients: Creativity has many forms and manifestations. Take the standpoint that creativity has its starting point within an individual. Creativity can manifest in a collective environment. While the individual contributions provide the 'building block" of creativity, it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.

The people who helped to shape our world are some of the broadest and innovative thinkers. Creativity seems to be the free flow of life force energy. It is a wellspring we can learn to tap. Creativity is like a color spectrum. There are commonalities that are relevant to all colors which reflect the spectrum of light. Such metaphor connects the dot back to the nature of creativity. Creativity is innate with many special ingredients; and creativity can be developed if the conditions are right and there is knowledge, love, inspiration, encouragement and permission. Creativity is a long-term endeavor. Creativity can be abundant.

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About The Author

Pearl Zhu is an innovative “Corporate Global Executive” with more than twenty-one years of technical and business working experience in strategic planning, Information Technology, software development, e-commerce and international trading, etc. Pearl Zhu is the author of “Digital Master” book series  (13+Books), which include:

Digital Master –Debunk the Myth of Enterprise Digital Maturity,

CIO Master – Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,

Digital Valley – Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence,

Digital Agility-The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile,

Leadership Master - Five Digital Themes to Leap Leadership Maturity,

Talent Master - 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles,

Digitizing Boardroom - The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards,

Thinkingaire - 100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the future,

Change Insight - Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation,

IT Innovation - Reinvent IT for the Digital Age

Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation in a Structural Way

100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity

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Pearl is a digital visionary who can capture business insight, technology foresight, and perceive digital leadership and management philosophy from multi-dimensional lenses and global perspectives. She is also a forward-thinking digital leader who advocates business innovation and culture evolution.

Pearl is a prolific blogger who creates a professional and popular blog: “Future of CIO,” which has reached the 3500+ posting milestones and catching 1,700, 000 + views from a worldwide audience. It covers more than 59+ hot IT and management subjects such as future of leadership, IT trends, digital transformation, organizational culture and management, business strategy and execution, innovation, IT transformation, Digital Master tuning, decision effectiveness, CIO Debate, Digital Transformation, Culture Master, talent management and risk intelligence, etc. 


Pearl has worked for both Fortune 100 companies to gain a variety of experiences and startup to present entrepreneur spirit. Her cross-industrial, cross-functional and cross-cultural backgrounds make her a natural strategic and creative thinker, always see the other side of the coin, also inspire her to observe deeper and broader with the fresh eyes and open mind, to become a relentless change agent, the symbol of innovation, and a forward-looking digital leader. 


She holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and she lives in San Francisco Bay Area for 15+ years.

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